Switzerland promotes the energy transition by supporting the development of geothermal energy. We built a 3D basin-scale fluid flow model of the Geneva Basin, France-Switzerland, using the open-source Matlab Reservoir ...

Large-scale CO2 injection problems have revived the interest in simple models, like percolation and vertically-averaged models, for simulating fluid flow in reservoirs and aquifers. A series of such models have been collected ...

In this work, we review a set of consistent discretizations for second-order elliptic equations, and compare and contrast them with respect to accuracy, monotonicity, and factors affecting their computational cost (degrees ...

The fully implicit method is the most commonly used approach to solve black-oil problems in reservoir simulation. The method requires repeated linearization of large nonlinear systems and produces ill-conditioned linear ...

High-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage (HT-ATES) may play a key role in the development of sustainable energies and thereby in the overall reduction of CO2 emission. To this end, a thorough understanding of the ...

CO2 capture and storage is an important technology for mitigating climate change. Design of efficient strategies for safe, long-term storage requires the capability to efficiently simulate processes taking place on very ...

Implicit transport solvers used in reservoir simulation can take longer time steps than explicit solvers, but for long time steps, the commonly used Newton-Raphson’s method will often fail to converge. The convergence ...

Geological carbon storage represents a substantial challenge for the subsurface geosciences. Knowledge of the subsurface can be captured in a quantitative form using computational methods developed within petroleum production. ...

Flow diagnostics, as referred to herein, are computational tools derived from controlled numerical flow experiments that yield quantitative information regarding the flow behavior of a reservoir model in settings much ...